Art & Music This content area page is for art and music. Check out some activities, reading information within art and music, resources, and ways to differentiate within this content area!
High Interest Activities:
Artist/Illustrator/Musician Study - choose a person to learn more about
Descriptive Journal: Have students create an art/music journal where they can record descriptions of artworks/songs. In the back as a glossary, students can record art/music definitions that they can refer to when writing descriptions. Some questions students can answer may include:
Describe: What colors do you see in the object?
Analyze: What kind of function does it serve?
Interpret: Where does it fit into history?
Evaluate: Is it aesthetically pleasing?
Other possible journal entries: This website also also walks you through the four ways to investigate a piece of artwork (source shown in resources)
Choose a song - find different figurative languages (similes, metaphors, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, etc)
Compose a song: create lyrics and a melody for a song
Stories in music: songs have emotion and words but they also can tell a story. Teachers can use songs for students to listen to and have students listen for the beginning, middle, and end. Also students can draw the setting, analyze the characters of the song, and/or draw/write the sequence of events. (Visit here for more information)
Reading Within Content Area: Art Using Art to Teach Reading: This is an inspirational video listing different ways to include art within reading and/or reading within art.
Post Modern Art: Everything is Information - a great lesson on using art to explain the point that everything has a message and has a meaning. No matter what you do, you are taking in information.
- This is an interesting article about how an eight grade art teacher uses art as a 'path" to literacy.
Music Jazz & Similes: Language Meets Music: This video having to do with using similes and metaphors in music takes place with a 4th and 5th grade group of students. However, this lesson can be adapted to be appropriate for older high school students.
Resources:
Kerpoof: An interactive website where students can create art, make a movie, and tell a story to go along with what they created. It's a great website that combines art and literacy.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/education/CC/index.html: A great website (maybe a little young for high school), but it contains great information for students to read and it is interactive as well for students to play games and explore!
http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml: This website has potential for students of all ages. It contains great information about different composers and musicians, along with some great interactive games!
This content area page is for art and music. Check out some activities, reading information within art and music, resources, and ways to differentiate within this content area!
High Interest Activities:
For more information and details on how to create a descriptive journal click here!
Reading Within Content Area:
Art
Using Art to Teach Reading: This is an inspirational video listing different ways to include art within reading and/or reading within art.
Post Modern Art: Everything is Information - a great lesson on using art to explain the point that everything has a message and has a meaning. No matter what you do, you are taking in information.
Picture books about Art
Reading in Art: Milwaukee Art Museum teacher resources: From this site you can also download PDF's that provide discussion questions that help support comprehension.
This is an interesting article that discussing how important it is to include literacy in all disciplinary content areas (including art).
Music
Jazz & Similes: Language Meets Music: This video having to do with using similes and metaphors in music takes place with a 4th and 5th grade group of students. However, this lesson can be adapted to be appropriate for older high school students.
Resources:
Differentiation:
8 Steps to Building Art Knowledge Through Literacy: This is a great resource from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction website!
- Build prior knowledge.
- Build specialized vocabulary.
- Learn to deconstruct complex visual representation of ideas.
- Use knowledge of artistic elements and genres to identify main and subordinate ideas within the piece.
- Articulate what the graphic representations mean within a work or ideas to support its main components.
- Pose discipline relevant questions.
- Compare artistic elements of the work to other artwork.
- Use reasoning within the discipline (i.e., what could as evidence to evaluation claims).
Here is a link to a google document for planning a disciplinary literacy art lesson.